Chapter 5

It had been a few months since Tristan and Chelsea became WhatsApp contacts. However, their chat history seemed to stretch on way longer than that. Leticia spent a long time scrolling all the way to the top. The first text message came from Chelsea. Apparently, she was the one who had added Tristan as a contact on WhatsApp. "Hi there, Tristan! I'm Bernard's younger sister, Chelsea! I look forward to working with you!" After that, she sent a few cute stickers that came with hearts. Tristan only responded to the messages after a few days. He sounded very cold and detached. "Don't send such things to me. My wife doesn't like seeing them." Chelsea just responded with a sad sticker. After that, the topic was dropped. Since then, Chelsea continued to spam Tristan's chat with cute stickers. Still, he never responded to any of them. Even when she confessed to him on WhatsApp, he chose to ignore it. But one day, he took the initiative to text her out of the blue. "I had too much to drink last night. Let's pretend it never happened. How much do you want from me? Name your price. "Letty had better not know about this. Otherwise, I won't let you off the hook!" Chelsea hesitated for a moment. Then, she sent Tristan a photo of her naked body. "Tristan, I'm younger and tighter than Leticia. Do you really not like me? But if that were the case, then why were you so rough and brutal to me last night? You left marks all over my body…" Typically speaking, Tristan wouldn't hesitate to verbally insult the women who dared to send him their nudes. But this time, he didn't say anything. Since then, they had become friends with benefits. Leticia remembered the countless moments when Tristan had ditched her with excuses of his own. It turned out that he had spent those times with Chelsea instead. He had turned up late at her own birthday banquet. Also, he had left abruptly in the middle of their seventh-year anniversary celebration. Heck, there was even one time when their vacation was suddenly delayed. On the night of Tristan and Leticia's seventh-year anniversary, it appeared that Tristan had sent Chelsea a photo of a set of sexy lingerie when Leticia made her wish for one full minute. The accompanying caption was written in a flippant manner. "If you wear this, I'll come over and keep you company." Also, Chelsea had brought up Leticia's necklace more than once in front of Tristan. She kept emphasizing how much she liked that necklace. "Tristan, I really, really like that necklace! Come on, just let me wear it just this once!" At first, Tristan turned her down coldly. "I'll buy you another necklace. You can pick it out yourself." But Chelsea refused to relent. "No way! I just want this necklace! There's only one necklace just like that in this world! Leticia has been wearing it for such a long time anyway! It shouldn't be a big deal for me to wear it once, right?" After that, Chelsea kept spamming Tristan's chat with cute and pouting stickers the whole time. Finally, he gave in. "Alright, settle down. I'll bring the necklace over to you." Chelsea was elated, to say the least. She was quick to respond with a photo of a box of condoms sitting in a drawer. "I'll reward you with these babies!" Tristan had instantly replied, "Those aren't enough to satiate me." The more Leticia read, the faster her emotional breakdown approached. She could only grip her phone tightly as her face turned pale. It felt as though she was struck by lightning. Teardrops splattered all over the phone screen. Leticia felt so hollow on the inside. Her body was trembling so much that she couldn't stop herself at all. She couldn't believe what she just saw. How could she ever believe her eyes? To think that Tristan had been sleeping with another woman during the times Leticia had spent waiting for him to return home while planning their future together. The worst thing was that she was even asleep during some of the times Tristan had spent hooking up with Chelsea. But the thing was, this was Tristan Colton, the man who loved her with all his heart. He was also the man who claimed that he'd love her for the rest of his life. As Leticia continued to scroll through the depraved chat history, she felt intense pain flaring from her heart. Suddenly, she clutched her chest, feeling as though she could no longer breathe from the pain. The next thing she knew, everything faded to black. At the same time, her body keeled over in a dead faint.